Susan Kelechi Watson Quotes

I'm not the kind of actor who goes into exhaustive research for each role.

In every character you play, as much as you hate to admit it as an actor, but there's an element of you that you bring to it.

My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.

When I look at a character, whether he's good or bad, one scene or 10 scenes, I just have to find my way in.

Every actor turns everything round to their character.

As an actor, you have to find reasons why your character made her decisions, and you have to empathise with her.

Actors usually respond to minor aspects of their own character or things that even feel disparate from themselves.

If I'm doing my job as an actor, the audience knows everything I know about the character.

I think that you can sort of have your own personal journey and you know, you can just kind of apply that to whatever characters you're playing.

I think when you play a role, you always have to be a defense attorney for that character.

You draw on whatever's relevant to the part you're playing; it makes it more personal.

A script narration is like watching a film, and I react to it like an audience with my own instinct. After that, I look for what is my character, what will I bring to the table in that role, how challenging will it be.

I think that I identify with my role in pretty much everything I have tried to do. I try to find something that I can understand about each character's behavior.

I learned to understand the distance a character can be from yourself and how important rehearsal can be to creating a person that feels like a person that isn't you.

As an actor, you can't just imitate someone. You have to get under her skin.

When I act, I try to understand the character, why she's behaving like that.

Any actor would love to just pick up a script and be like, 'I can connect to this person, and I can see myself playing him.'

As an actor, I'm more interested in characters the longer I have lived with them.

With every character that I've ever played, I felt like I just understood the way that she thought and how she was.

You know, you do have a self-awareness as an actor.

It was important to have a similar energy in my performance. To make the character too different would have just been about my ego because it didn't need to be drastically different.

I tend to get comfortable with the dialogue and find out who the person is in the script and try to hit that. People are sort of independent of their occupations and their pastimes. You don't play a politician or a fireman or a cowboy - you just play a person.

My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.

Anytime you take on a character... you just have to find the parts of the character that you can understand.

I feel like there are things I can relate to in every character. But I feel like when you read a script, you don't get to see the definition behind someone, you just get to read what the person goes through and find a place to come from to make it real.